On Mon, Feb 06 2006, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > interface for userland, and BTW going async will not give you too much
> > > of performance advantage here...
> >
> > How do you know that? Suspend2 has async I/O, and can write the image as
> > fast as the drive can take it. Some testing I did a while ago showed a max
> > throughput of 16MB/s for swsusp vs 35 (what the drive is capable of) for
> > Suspend2. Add LZF compression and it's 70MB/s vs 16MB/s.
>
> Userspace is perfectly capable of saturating I/O subsystem. No magical
> "async io" is needed for that. time dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
> bs=... if you don't believe me.
But the in-kernel swsusp stuff (looking at the current linus kernel now)
does write each page to the swap in a sync manner. That definitely is
pretty slow, I would not be surprised if Nigels numbers are correct. If
you repeated without write back caching enabled, a factor 10 in slowdown
as compared to async io would not surprise me.
Why don't you split the writeout into a few seperate loops? Step 1,
submission, step 2, wait for completion, step 3, check for io errors.
You could even collapse step 2+3 if you wanted, the important bit is to
queue all the io first.
> > > Current uswsusp is 3K lines of code in kernel, 1K lines of code in
> > > userspace.
> > >
> > > When we are done, we'll have perhaps 2.5K lines of code in kernel
> > > (in-kernel swap writing support goes away), and maybe 20K lines in
> > > userspace.
> >
> > Without adding which out of async I/O, compression, encryption, swap file
> > support, and ordinary file support?
>
> I'll get same bandwidth as you, without need for async I/O. Async I/O
> is not really a feature, suspend speed is. (There are existing
> interfaces for doing AIO from userspace, anyway, but I'm pretty sure
> they will not be needed
If you keep writing single pages sync, you sure as hell wont get
anywhere near async io in speed...
--
Jens Axboe
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